Bulgaria shuts down nuclear reactors as precondition of joining EU.

[Swede]

This will cause some short term pain,for long term gain.

As demand for electricity in the region rises by about five per cent annually, most countries, with the exception of Bulgaria, Romania and Bosnia, have turned into net importers already, or are about to. Those three countries have together poured more than 14 terawatt hours (TWh) in the regional market in the past year.

But they cannot fill the gap. "There is simply not enough electricity in the regional market anymore," said Atanasko Tunevski, director of Macedonia’s transmission operator MEPSO.

The closure of Kozloduy units 3 and 4 will drain about 40 per cent of the pool of electricity that Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo use to cover their energy deficit...

http://wesupportlee.blogspot.com/2006/11/bulgarias-kozloduy-to-shut-downfuture.html

[YOY]

1. Those reactors were deemed unsafe

Granted, it was the EU who deemed them so, but it remains a fact.